BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Recent data suggest that cow's milk allergy (CMA) has become more persistent, prolonging treatment via strict elimination of cow's milk products into a period of skeletal growth. The objectives of this study were to compare bone mineral density (BMD), vitamin D status, and dietary intakes of calcium and vitamin D between prepubertal children with persistent CMA and tho...

Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), a cellular process that contributes to protein quality control through targeting of a subset of cytosolic proteins to lysosomes for degradation, undergoes a functional decline with age. We have used a mouse model with liver-specific defective CMA to identify changes in proteostasis attributable to reduced CMA activity in this organ with age. We have found tha...

In this paper, we investigate the performance of CMA-ES on large scale non-separable optimisation problems. CMA-ES is a robust local optimiser that has shown great performance on small-scale nonseparable optimisation problems. Self-adaptation of a covariance matrix makes it rotational invariant which is a desirable property, especially for solving non-separable problems. The focus of this paper...

Aims. The CMa R1 star-forming region contains several compact clusters as well as many young early-B stars. It is associated with a well-known bright rimmed nebula, the nature of which is unclear (fossil HII region or supernova remnant). To help elucidate the nature of the nebula, our goal was to reconstruct the star-formation history of the CMa R1 region, including the previously unknown older...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a computer - based training program of attention, memory and executive functions in enhancing neuropsychological performances as well as functional outcome in clients with schizophrenia.a total of 15 clinically stable out patients with diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv-tr) criteria for schizophrenia, diagnosed wit...

A Stochastic Conjugate Gradient Algorithms (SCGA) is proposed for the solving nonlinear optimization problem assodated with the multi-nser constant modulus algorithm (CC-CMA) for DSCDMA receivers in a multi-user environment. The algorithm referred to as the stochastic conjngate gradient CC-CMA (SCGCC-CMA). Simulatious show that the SCGCCCMA algorithm preserves the fast convergence rate of the b...

This paper compares several Gaussian-processbased surrogate modeling methods applied to black-box optimization by means of the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES), which is considered state-of-the-art in the area of continuous black-box optimization. Among the compared methods are the Modelassisted CMA-ES, the Robust Kriging Metamodel CMAES, and the Surrogate CMA-ES. In add...

Two antigens of Cysticercus cellulosae, cystic fluid antigen (CFA) and the culture medium antigen (CMA), were used in Avidin-Biotin Peroxdase Complex-ELISA (ABC-ELISA) to detect IgG antibodies in 45 cases of cysticercosis treated with praziquantel. The results revealed the total positive rates as 51.11% with CMA and 82.22% with CFA. The positive rates in the cases treated within 2 courses of tr...